Link to original: • 100 Points of Grip with Nick Ienatsch We now have a Patreon, you can support the channel here: / golosbezdoka You will ride better in a very short time. This is what makes you a champion. You don’t fall, you ride forever, fast on any bike, in any weather... Official website of the Yamaha School of Champions: https://ridelikeachampion.com Hi, I'm Nick Ienatsch, this is the Yamaha School of Champions. Every motorcyclist I know, be he a racer or an enduro rider, he always needs grip and he wants to know everything about it. Beginners want to know how strong it is, racers want to know how much of it is available to them. And a couple of years ago we came up with a great way to explain grip. Let's say this tire has 100% available grip and it's holding on with all its might. At our school, we try to make the sport as simple as possible. It's a difficult sport, but at the same time, it's simple. And the explanation of grip, traction is one of the foundations of this simplicity. The grip of the front tire is simply the braking force and the angle of inclination. This is what the front grip consists of. Obviously, for the rear, it is also the braking force and the angle of inclination when you are in a turn, but we are more interested in opening the gas when accelerating when exiting a turn. In the front, if we have 100% of the grip available, 100 units of grip, if the angle of inclination is 0 degrees, we can safely apply all 100 units of braking force and stop the motorcycle. If you exceed these 100 points, then if it is a sportbike, the rear will come off the ground, or, if it is a cruiser, then the front will skid, because you have gone beyond the limit of 100 points. When we approach the mark from which we begin to put the motorcycle into a turn, we need to smoothly compensate for the braking force with the angle of inclination, this is called braking control. We decrease the braking force as the angle of inclination increases. It feels like this, you brake boldly and fold the fork, reduce the speed to the required when you reach the entry point of the turn and smoothly transfer the braking to the lean points. The essence is simple, holding the braking points, hold the lean points. When you want to add a little lean points, lower the braking points. With this approach, the good thing is that if you are leaning, that is, you are satisfied with the degree of lean of the motorcycle, a good radius, you can hold the brake and extract braking points, and when the motorcycle slows down, the radius decreases, the motorcycle is controlled better, all that, this is a very good look at the front grip. Braking force versus lean angle. In the back, let's imagine that this is the rear tire, when entering the turn, the idea is exactly the same, this is the lean angle versus the braking force from the rear brake. But most people are usually interested in acceleration and traction during acceleration, so let's look at it from the other side. When we want to open the handle, the lean angle needs to be reduced. This is where the question arises, how to stay within the grip of the tire. Let's discuss the two most common mistakes and what is wrong with them in terms of grip. So, we have a driver who grabs the brake lever abruptly. And every time he brakes, he squeezes 30 points. You can see how the front sags, then releases. But you need to start from zero and build up, one, two, three, that's what we'll do. I'll show you. Maybe we'll get to 30, but it's about the speed with which we get there. You see, gradual pressure works smoother, that's what I'm talking about. First, you need to load the tire. So, we have the same driver who thinks that in this sport you need to be abrupt, in the same way he squeezes 30 points with the throttle. Every time he opens the knob, he opens it so fast that if he leans too far, or if he's riding in the rain, or if he hits a slippery spot, or if he hits gravel in a parking lot, or if he's on new tires, underline as appropriate, every time he opens the knob and he opens it too fast, every time he hits the brakes, literally every time, whether he's riding a car or a bike, every time he hits the brakes, he's giving 30 points. And what you should be doing is, look, here's the knob, I can barely move my hand, but you can hear the engine revving up. That's enough opening to put load on the tire while maintaining the lean angle points. The bike is getting louder and louder, and my hand is barely moving. That's what you need to feel. You're working smoothly, and you're preparing for the worst. As the mopeys say, "We're preparing for the threat, we're preparing for the danger." A threat is when you're leaning into a turn, even on Sunday, and you see danger, the car is turning or something, you gently press the brake and slow down into the turn, because you're first loadi